QuakeIndex

Fault · California, Nevada

Northern Death Valley fault

100 kmlong (62 mi), as mapped
1–5 mm/yrhow fast it slips
< 15,000 yearssince it last broke the surface
7quakes of M2.5+ within 10 km since 2016

In plain English

The two sides move 1 to 5 mm a year — 10 to 50 cm (4 to 20 inches) every century.

Its most recent surface rupture is younger than 15,000 years.

USGS maps it as 3 sections: Grapevine Mountains section, Kit Fox Hills section, Mesquite Flat-Screwbean Spring section.

This week vs. its last ten years

Too quiet to rank: fewer than half a year's worth of weeks with any M1.5+ quake within 5 km, in ten years. A single quake here would read as "unusual", so we do not score it.

Computed from the USGS catalogue · a description of the past, not a forecast · method

San Andreas faultSouthern Sierra Nevada faultOwens Valley faultWhite Mountains faultFish Lake Valley faultBlack Mountains faultRock Valley faultHunter Mountain- Saline Valley faultTowne Pass faultYucca Mountain faults, western groupDeep Springs faultMcAfee Canyon fault
The Northern Death Valley fault as mapped at the surface (glowing), with the other mapped faults nearby, 7 of the M2.5+ earthquakes within 10 km of it since 2016 (dots), . Traces: USGS Quaternary Fault and Fold Database. Historic epicentres are estimates.

Every year since 2016

Earthquakes of M2.5+ with an epicentre within 10 km of the mapped trace. Near is not the same as on: some will have slipped on neighbouring faults.

Most recent near it

  1. M 2.9 70km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
    2023-04-28 · 2 km from the trace
  2. M 2.8 67 km ENE of Independence, California
    2021-07-17 · 5 km from the trace
  3. M 3.2 65km NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
    2021-03-09 · 1 km from the trace
  4. M 2.5 61 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
    2018-07-06 · 7 km from the trace
  5. M 3.1 42km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
    2018-01-30 · 9 km from the trace
  6. M 2.5 60 km WNW of Beatty, Nevada
    2017-04-19 · 8 km from the trace

Neighbouring faults

Fault trace, slip rate and age: USGS Quaternary Fault and Fold Database (public domain), simplified for the web. Earthquakes: USGS ComCat. QuakeIndex does not forecast earthquakes; a fault's history describes the past. For early warning use ShakeAlert.